Wednesday, December 26, 2018

How To Minimize The Adverse Effects Of Hazardous Wastes

By Carolyn Roberts


Human activity on this planet is increasing at a very fast pace. The increase in population means that demand for consumer goods also increases necessitating more production. This will lead to plant and factory expansion as companies strive to meet the demands for the consuming public. This is economics at work and with it is the dark specter of wastes. As a conscientious manufacturer, companies rely on hazardous waste disposal NY.

The early inhabitants of the planet did not have to deal with pollution and industrial wastes as we do today. Life was laid back then as the inhabitants needed only simple things. Technology was yet to be developed. Their main concern was survival. The trash they dealt with were natural. Fecal matter, dead animals, rotting plants. Things that nature to care of through bio-degradation.

Biodegradable materials are organic matters that naturally rots and decays through the natural process by which these are acted upon by protozoans, fungi, and bacteria. In this process, poisonous substances are rendered less poisonous or are even eliminated. This was the main waste eliminator during ancient times when humans first walked this planet.

The human activity dealing with economics which includes work in offices, industrial manufacturing, trade and commerce, education, and politics are all concentrated in one area. The is the urban area, a direct result of progress spurred by technology. This is a well known reality even in earlier civilizations. Humans always congregate in places where there are plenty of opportunities.

The coming of the industrial age brought with it some serious problems. The most serious one is the accumulation of industrial waste. This had to be dealt with as it had serious effects on the environment. Factories and manufacturing plants churned out waste at a very rapid rate and these were just thrown or channeled into the ocean or in waterways.

The quest for money blinded most industrialists whose main purpose, despite harking about social responsibility is just plain profit making. Governments were indifferent to the adverse effects for as long as taxes were paid. These people were unmindful of worrying events like Fish kill, dwindling of wildlife, the extinction of flora and fauna, all brought about by industrial wastes that seeped into ecosystems.

It was only during the twentieth century that serious studies were made regarding the effects of industrialization on the environment. This was the century of severe natural disasters when the La Nina and El Nino phenomenon was fully understood, and climate change came to be recognized as an effect of human activity. Today companies are now more environmentally conscious.

Governments the world over are also becoming conscious and concerned about the environment. All nations now have environmental protection agencies. Various legislation has also been enacted that serve to protect the environment with heavy penalties to offending companies. Overall, world population is more environmentally conscious than it had been in the past.

Such simple practice as waste segregation multiplied and magnified a million times can have a very big impact in controlling the proliferation of hazardous trash materials. Ordinary family members can contribute by just following basic sanitation and cleaning. Corporate owned heavy industries who are mainly responsible for all the hazardous wastes must exercise appropriate management of these.




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